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10 v. : 22 cm. (8vo)

Edited by Isaac Reed

Volume 1 with a general title page; volumes 2-10 with volume half-titles; each volume with a volume half-title; each play with a divisional title page

Volume 1 with frontispiece portrait lettered: engraved by John Hall from an original picture in the possession of his grace the Duke of Chandos ... March 25th, 1785 by J. Rivington & Partners; head of Shakspeare after Droeshout; head of Shakspeare after Marshall; woodcut of the Globe Theatre; and a facsimile of Shakespeare's handwriting. King Henry IV, part 2 with a folded engraving lettered: Morris dancers, J. Keyse Sherwin sculpsit. Some plays with woodcuts illustrating editorial notes. Twelfth-night with music

Volume 1 preliminaries include the prefaces of Johnson, Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, Warburton; Some account of the life, &c. of Mr. William Shakespear by Rowe; Shakepeare's will, followed by a tipped-in leaf with a reproduction of Shakespeare's autograph; Granger's catalogue of portraits of Shakespeare; and Malone's Attempt to ascertain the order in which the plays attributed to Shakespeare were written

v. 1. Tempest ; Two gentlemen of Verona ; Merry wives of Windsor -- v. 2. Measure for measure ; Comedy of errors ; Much ado about nothing ; Love's labour's lost -- v. 3. Midsummer-night's dream ; Merchant of Venice ; As you like it ; Taming of the shrew -- v. 4. All's well that ends well ; Twelfth-night ; Winter's tale ; Macbeth -- v. 5. King John ; King Richard II ; King Henry IV -- v. 6. King Henry V ; King Henry VI -- v. 7. King Richard III ; King Henry VIII ; Coriolanus -- v. 8. Julius Caesar ; Antony and Cleopatra ; Timon of Athens ; Titus Andronicus -- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida ; Cymbeline ; King Lear -- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet ; Hamlet ; Othello

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